On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 10:34 AM -0700 6/15/00, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> >
> > > Second the generic plea for help.  Is it really true that you can't
> > > get OF to boot a file from a HFS partition?  I certainly haven't
> > > gotten anywhere trying, but I thought that should be possible.
> >
> >I've gotten it to work before. I thought fd:ofwboot.xcf was the ticket.
> 
> Hmmm.  You're talking about a HFS partition on a floppy?  I was 
> talking about a HFS partition on a hard disk under OF 1.0.5.  I'll 
> have to try a HFS floppy this way.  Since there *is* some HFS code in 
> OF 1.0.5 there must be some kind of HFS media that it understands if 
> it really can't grok HFS hard disks.

given the list of supported boot media for OF 1.05 (DOS floppy, HFS
floppy, whole disk, enet, 9660) it looks like the problem isn't with OF
understanding HFS but with it reading the apple partition map...